Resources
Members of GAIA have produced many quality resources. See below for some of our best.
Stop Trashing the Climate Report
The Stop Trashing the Climate report, written by GAIA, the Institute for Local Self Reliance and Eco-Cycle, provides compelling evidence that preventing waste and expanding reuse, recycling, and composting programs — that is, aiming for zero waste — is one of the fastest, cheapest, and most effective strategies available for combating climate change.
A Community Guide to Environmental Health
This highly illustrated guide from the Hesperian Foundation helps health promoters, development workers, environmental activists, and community leaders take charge of their environmental health.
Cement Kiln Information Clearinghouse
GAIA member groundWork has designed a web-based clearinghouse of information on the environmental and public health impacts of cement kilns burning waste.
The Story of Stuff
Longtime GAIA member Annie Leonard has created this fact-filled online video about the underside of our production and consumption patterns. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
EU Waste Legislation and Climate Change
This fact sheet was produced by GAIA, Health Care Without Harm, and Bankwatch in April 2008 to encourage the European Parliament to support sensible waste legislation.
Threats to health and recycling: Why EU legislation must not favour incineration
Good legislation should guarantee that the amount of waste we produce is minimised, and what is left is safely recycled, re-used and composted. It certainly shouldn’t just encourage us to burn what we throw away.
Gasification, Pyrolysis and Plasma Incineration Fact Sheet
Articulates the serious flaws with these technologies and highlights the benefits of aiming for zero waste instead.
Resources up in Flames Report
Details the economic pitfalls of incineration versus a zero waste approach in the Global South.
Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology
This report explains why incinerators are an unsustainable and obsolete method for dealing with waste.
Bankrolling Polluting Technology: The World Bank Group and Incineration
Despite the known health hazards and extreme economic burdens of incineration, the World Bank Group continues to promote this polluting technology.
